Wednesday Weekly 28 June 2017

Coordinators Out of Office 10 - 23 July!

Dear colleagues,

from 10 to 23 July both coordinators of the KFG will be out of office. Please be aware that all organisational and administrative issues will have to be addressed either before or after these two weeks. Besides that, the KFG will of course continue its work and all scheduled events will take place as planned.

Coffee Break

Beginning next week, the Monday Coffee Break will be generally shifted to Tuesday due to conflicting schedules - same time, same place.

Public Colloquium: Making Dubai a Muslim Place: imagination, work, and piety

4 July 2017, 4:15 - 6 p.m., Main Seminar Room, MPI Halle.

Manja Stephan-Emmrich (Humboldt University Berlin) will give a talk a the Joint Institutes Colloquium of the MPI for Social Anthropology and the Seminar for Social Anthropology, MLU (both situated in Halle/Saale). The lecture addresses the linkage between mobility, imagination and placemaking in the migratory experience of Tajiks working in Dubai. It traces how through work (trade business, social work, emotion work) Tajik men and women try to make a place in Dubai’s cosmopolitan urban spaces and thereby re-reflect and re-articulate Islam and Muslim identity. Adopting a translocality perspective, the lecture scrutinizes the role religion plays in mobilizing for and experiencing migration to the Gulf und thus illustrates how Tajik migrants engage in a desired piety. Thereby they construct, mediate, and market the ‘idea’ of Dubai as a Muslim place.

CfP: Islamophobia in Eastern Europe

1.) What forms and manifestations of Islamophobia exist in Eastern European countries at the level of attitudes, behaviors, media and political contexts?

2.) How has Islamophobia developed historically in Eastern Europe?

3.) Which theories at the micro-, meso- and macro-social level explain Islamophobia in Eastern Europe?

In the abstract (1 – 2 pages), the applicants are invited to clarify the research questions in their paper, the theories they use, and the results of which empirical research they will discuss. The contributors are also asked to publish a short summary of their paper online after the workshop (max 8 pages). The submission deadline is the 15th of August 2017. Approved contributors can have their travel expenses reimbursed up to 350 Euros by EEGA. Please submit your abstract to Alexander Yendell.